Best of BS Opinion: Import curbs & Indian economy, Haryana politics & more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

On the government’s decision to license the imports of personal computers, laptops, and notebooks, T N Ninan in his column notes that the objectives are worthy (security and import substitution), but the road to the economic hell that India once was, was always paved with good intentions. He further talks about a number of such recent decisions. Read here

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Bharat needs many more apps like Animall. Apps that are rooted in the reality of an India that people in the metros neither relate to, nor even try to understand, writes Sandeep Goyal. Read here

In the context of recent developments in Haryana, Aditi Phadnis writes that the state is happy with the Manohar Lal Khattar-led government as the vote share increase in the last Assembly elections suggests. But the state doesn’t like the BJP MLAs and voted for fewer of them in 2019. Read here

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“Truth always triumphs”

 

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi